Haha! I remember this one well. One time Mary and I decided to make a “Bloomin’ Onion” at home. We got an onion, cut it like a flower, dipped it in some kind of flour mixture, then put it in a pot of oil to boil. It came out…absolutely…awful…
Drippy and oily…and none of the coating stuck like it should have…it was just a mess. And the clean up? Ugh.
It was then and there I decided that there are some things that just can’t be duplicated or faked. There are some times when there is no reasonable alternative but to leave it in the hands of the experts.
How could we have improved upon it? Throw it in the garbage, and go to Outback. Which is pretty much what we did. Not right away, but when we did, the Onion was done to perfection.
